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The Two Mains

Analogue became my main during Wrath and probably will remain my main for as long as I play; I’ve just so merged my identity in WoW with “druid healer” that I don’t think I can change it. She gets leveled and geared first, that’s the name I use in Vent and on blogs and, well, it’s my WoW identity. Symbolically, she became my real main when she got name changed to Analogue. Originally she was named Metaphor, but when we moved servers the first time, that name was taken, so I looked for something themically similar and chose Analogue. It works for me.

Then there’s Invariant – who, like Analogue, was originally not named Invariant but Variant. Again, first server move, that name wasn’t available so I changed to Invariant. Either works. She’s a mage. She’s not the first character I rolled, but she is the first that actually appealed to me enough to get past 40. She was my first level 70, my second 80, and my third 85. Poor thing. But despite being leveled behind my priest, I identify with her a lot more than with my priest. Elucidate is just “Analogue’s priest”. Invariant is…. Invariant.

I’ve been able to keep her identity because I use her for very different things. I’m not that into damage dealing these days; I’m too perfectionist to like doing a lousy job, and too haphazard to get 100% performance out of my mage. Oddly I don’t have the issue with my druid… but it’s the role, not the character. I give 110% when I heal; when I’m doing damage I just don’t.

But somewhere along the way Invariant became my achievement runner, my pet collector, my archeologist. It seemed logical enough; mages have some advantages like portals to everywhere. Makes them a lot faster at world achievements. She got 50 pets; then she got serious and scored 75. Now I collect them just to have them. She has the first mount achievement, and works slowly on getting more. Her archeology is 525 and I’m looking forward to plenty more time with that.

Do you have a dichotomy like this? One character for “fun” and one for “serious business”? Or a PVP main and PVE main, or a different identity for Horde and Alliance?

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I have two mains too – my mage was my ‘first’ character and I’ve always loved the mage class. She did everything ‘first’ and is my general achievement running character; the one I’ve completed Loremaster and the Diplomat on, the one who’s collected mounts and pets and has secondary professions levelled.

My second ‘main’ is my priest – I rolled her quite late into TBC and didn’t really play her much until WOTLK. But, as our little 10 man guild discovered that we could actually progress through the raid tiers in the new expansion she became more needed to help the raids, and I LOVE healing. So she is my ‘raiding character’ and the one who generally gets taken to raid achievement runs as well.

I probably play both equally but just for different purposes! I think having the two (as well as an army of alts…) helps me not to get too bored with the game 🙂

I made a post recently called “Mains vs Alts” in which I continued my deliberations on just who my main was and if it was indeed possible to have 2 mains or if it was best to have one recognized main. I have the issue of “Main of the heart, and main in reality”. My ‘main of the heart’ is my Holy paladin Endyme. She was who I played as my main for nigh on 5 years, from the time I started playing WoW. I’m called Endy by my guildies, it’s the name I go by on my blog and on forums. But my ‘main in reality’ at the moment is my Disc priest, Lirwyn, who I transferred from my old server and leveled from 70 to 80. I chose to level her first in Cataclysm, and I’m totally smitten with her. It’s very hard to let go of Endyme. I’m slowly working on her, she is now 82, and aim to gear her up nice and re-learn how2Holy and the HOPE is that I can use both for raiding eventually.

So I don’t so much have one main for fun and one for srs raiding or one for Ally and one for Horde, just…can’t decide. I do order my toons like “Main” “First Alt” “Second Alt, twice removed” in my head though. Currently, Endyme and Lirwyn are duking it out for “Main” status and the “First Alt” is my DK Celrina, cooling her heels at 80 for now.

I’m interested in how you manage having raiders in different guilds and opposite factions. It seems like I’m spending a lot of time in support work for my raiding – gathering mats for flasks or gold for various costs – or backing myself up by leveling different alts and getting them raid capable.

To start with, one is a weekend raiding guild, while the other does weekdays. I only play on those 2 characters for the most part, I’m not really interested in alts so that saves a lot of time.

I haven’t had problems spending the time to get raid-ready. If I cant make what I need I just buy it with the gold i had left over from Wrath. My fiance plays in my Horde guild so he helps me out a lot with my raid consumables too.

The biggest problem I’ve run into was right after Cata release. Trying to level both characters up quickly was a real pain.

My main is my hunter. I wanted to be a hunter since they announce the classes back before even beta. She was my first 60, my first 70 and sadly, my second 80. Now she is 82, has done no leveling that was not from Archeology and I have three at 85.
I do ‘play’ her a lot because she is maxed out in Engineering and Alchemy. My problem is tanking…
I love huntering but I also love tanking… and I don’t know enough other good tanks to be able to get runs unless I tank them myself.

A human priest who undermans dungeons and heroics with a good friend tanking. She only raids when the guild is short a healer with the understanding I usually want to be replaced as soon as another healer logs on.

Nothing to do with stress or anything, I just want to raid more than one everning a week anymore.

My second main is blood elf protection paladin. I organize casual (and sometimes silly) raids on this toon with the half my raiders being old hardcore players who now play very casually and the other half players who like to stand in fire. Our goal is not progression and you need to have a silly streak to enjoy our raids as I will ask players to perform unusual roles they are not well suited for. It’s an older group (9/10 are 40+ most evenings) and they would rather have a good laugh than kill another boss.

We did get to 11/12 in ICC before 4.0 dropped but that’s only because some of our unusual strategies shocked us by their effectiveness (or execution).

This group, and the fun I have undermanning dungeons, are the two reasons why I find it difficult to cancel my subscription.